U
- Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) – Criterion Collection
- Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952) – Criterion Collection
- Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2019)
- Under the Hawthorn Tree (Zhang Yimou, 2010)
- United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
- Unknown Saint, The (Alaa Eddine Aljem, 2019)
- Unteachable (Yong Shuling, 2019)
- Uppercase Print (Radu Jude, 2020)
- Us (Jordan Peele, 2019)
- Up (Pete Docter & Bob Peterson, 2009)
V
- Vai (Various, 2019)
- Varda by Agnes (Agnes Varda, 2019) – Criterion Collection
- Vengeance (Johnnie To, 2009)
- Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura, 1979) – Criterion Collection
- Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski, 2013)
- Veronika Voss (R.W. Fassbinder, 1982) – Criterion Collection
- Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009)
- Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa, 2019)
- Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
- Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) – Criterion Collection
- Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006)
- Vox Lux (Brady Corbet, 2018)
W
- Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012)
- Wajib (Annemarie Jacir, 2017)
- Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
- Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas, 2019)
- Waves (Trey Edward Shults, 2019)
- Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai, 2019)
- Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) – Criterion Collection
- Wet Season (Anthony Chen, 2019)
- When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
- Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) – Criterion Collection
- While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach, 2014)
- Whistlers, The (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2019)
- White Material (Claire Denis, 2009) – Criterion Collection
- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (R.W. Fassbinder, 1970)
- Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018)
- Wife of a Spy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2020)
- Wild Goose Lake, The (Diao Yi’nan, 2019)
- Wild Pear Tree, The (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018)
- Wings (Larisa Shepitko, 1966) – Criterion Collection
- Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2014)
- Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
- Witch, The (Robert Eggers, 2015)
- Wolf of Wall Street, The (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
- Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, A (Zhang Yimou, 2009)
- Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo, 2004)
- Woman Who Left, The (Lav Diaz, 2016)
- Woman Who Ran, The (Hong Sang-soo, 2020)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar, 1988) – Criterion Collection
- Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017)
- Wonder Woman 1984 (Patty Jenkins, 2020)
- Wonders, The (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
- Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes, 2017)
- Wrong Man, The (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
X
Y
- Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) – Criterion Collection
- Yellow Cat (Adilkhan Yerzhanov, 2020)
- Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky, 2018)
- You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
- Your Name (Makoto Shinkai, 2016)
- Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo, 2016)
- Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)
Z
- Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman – Criterion Collection
- #1: The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi, 1962)
- #2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Kazuo Mori, 1962)
- #3: New Tale of Zatoichi (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1963)
- #4: Zatoichi the Fugitive (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1963)
- #5: Zatoichi on the Road (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1963)
- #6: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
- #7: Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1964)
- #8: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (Kenji Misumi, 1964)
- #9: Adventures of Zatoichi (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1964)
- #10: Zatoichi’s Revenge (Akira Inoue, 1965)
- #11: Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (Kazuo Mori, 1965)
- #12: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (Kenji Misumi, 1965)
- #13: Zatoichi’s Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka, 1966)
- #14: Zatoichi’s Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro, 1966)
- #15: Zatoichi’s Cane Sword (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1967)
- Zen in the Ice Rift (Margherita Ferri, 2018)
- Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello, 2019)
